Veteran Team
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BCX is founded by Ben Vu, an award-winning pioneer in the mobile gaming industry. As the CEO and creator of the Battle Bears franchise, Vu has designed and produced over 20 games across multiple platforms. Battle Bears helped pioneer the mobile shooter genre and introduced the first cross-platform mobile shooter game. To date, the franchise has amassed over 40 million downloads, ranked #1 in over 150 countries, and received numerous industry accolades, including Top 100 iPhone Games of the Year, Top iPad Game of the Year, and multiple Best App Ever awards.
Vu’s work has been featured by major tech giants, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Qihoo 360. His achievements have earned him prestigious honors such as Pipeline’s Innovator of the Year, AIM Technology Innovator of the Year, and recognition in the Midlands Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list. He has also spoken at multiple Game Developers Conference (GDC) events, been recognized as a PocketGamer.biz Mobile Maven, and lectured at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Ball State University, and the University of Nebraska.
Before his career in gaming, Vu was recruited straight out of CalArts to join Phil Knight’s LAIKA Studios, where he was among the first employees to work on the Academy Award-nominated films CORALINE and THE BOXTROLLS.
In Web3, Vu produced and published Battle Bears Heroes, which won PocketGamer’s Big Indie Award at GDC. Partnering with Immutable and AtomicHub, the game’s Freemint of playable NFT skins sold out in minutes, offering full in-game utility. Vu also founded a veteran game studio in Vietnam, working closely with the Sky Mavis Ronin team to integrate in-game purchases for the Mavis Store. In 2022, he won the Algorand Game Hackathon for pioneering the first integrated playable 3D NFT multiplayer characters.
Vu leads an award-winning team of advisors, economy designers, engineers and artists located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Sydney, Singapore and Vietnam. BCX's senior level development team are experts in Solidity, Rust, .NET, C#, F, Unity, Unreal, MySQL, Redis, and ReactJS. Team members have worked at major studios such as Ubisoft, Gameloft and Laika. Team members have held key roles on the following games: Iron Man 3, Dungeon Hunter Champions, Disney Magic Kingdoms, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Blitz Brigade, Asphalt Series, Zombie Anarchy, Order and Chaos Series, GT Racing Series, Ice Age Adventures and the Modern Combat Series.
